Databases are used in many different settings, for different purposes. For example, libraries use databases to keep track of which books are available and which are out on loan. Schools may use ...

Learn the key differences between relational and NoSQL databases with this in-depth comparison. There’s nothing wrong with the traditional relational database management system. In fact, many NoSQL ...

For over two decades, Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft relational databases were the only consistent leaders in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems--and there were few ...

Relational SQL databases, which have been around since the 1980s, historically ran on mainframes or single servers—that’s all we had. If you wanted the database to handle more data and run faster, you ...

Data estates are expansive. Organizations in all business verticals are operating data stacks that run on a mixture of legacy technologies that work effectively but aren’t always easy to move or ...

Poke around the infrastructure of any startup website or mobile app these days, and you’re bound to find something other than a relational database doing much of the heavy lifting. Take, for example, ...

Douglas Adams once wrote of a Holistic Detective Agency. The central character in this story, Dirk Gently, was able to solve cases with his understanding of the fundamental interconnectedness of ...

Data scientists, engineers and managers having been working for the past 50 years at methodologies to gain better business insights from large stores of data. Despite advances in cloud data storage ...